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After talking a lot about coal and some of its ups and downs, one might wonder how much of their electricity comes from coal, and how much from other sources. I did a little digging and found the numbers. But numbers can be hard to read, so don’t worry, I made a pie chart for…

It’s not. If I were to sum up this whole post in two words, those are the ones, “it’s not.” The term clean coal is an exaggeration of a technique which reduces some of coal’s harmful effects, but there has never been, is not now, and will never be anything “clean” about coal. Let’s start with…